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Superconductivity at ferromagnetic domain walls in hybrid InAs/EuS/Al nanowires, part 1: studied by scanning SQUID imaging

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Abstract

Ferromagnet/superconductor heterostructures are playgrounds for novel quantum phases that rarely occur naturally in nature, e.g. topological, spin-triplet, etc. One particularly intriguing example is the possible signature of Majorana fermions recently observed in EuS/InAs/Al nanowires. While ferromagnetism normally precludes superconductivity, Cooper pairing may survive in proximity to magnetic domain walls. Heterostructure nanowires are particularly suitable for studying such domain wall superconductivity as their high aspect ratio encourages domain formation only along the length alleviating averaging effects from neighbouring domains. In this talk I will present magnetometry images taken using scanning Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) to explore magnetic domain formation in full shell InAs/EuS/Al nanowires as we sweep a full in-plane hysteresis loop at 4 K at a range of field angles. We use our magnetometry images to explain the observation of superconductivity in magneto-transport measurements, which will be presented in the second part of this talk.

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Presenters

  • Nabhanila Nandi

    Stanford University

Authors

  • Nabhanila Nandi

    Stanford University

  • Irene P Zhang

    Stanford University

  • Juan Carlos Estrada Saldaña

    Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

  • Alexandros Vekris

    Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

  • Michelle Turley

    Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

  • Yu Liu

    Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen and Microsoft Quantum Materials Lab Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Center for Quantum Devices, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

  • Mario Castro

    Universidad de Santiago de Chile

  • Martin Bjergfelt

    Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

  • Sabbir A Khan

    Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

  • Sebastian Allende

    Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

  • Peter Krogstrup

    Microsoft Quantum Materials Lab Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Quantum Materials Lab Copenhagen, Microsoft, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen

  • Kasper Grove-Rasmussen

    Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

  • Jesper Nygard

    Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Center for Quantum Devices, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

  • Kathryn Moler

    Department of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford Univ, Stanford University, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, California 94305, USA